The Heritage Gateway website describes Calceby in detail – Calceby is mentioned separately in Domesday and assessed in medieval tax records. In 1377 60 people paid poll tax and by 1563 18 families remained. A priest was last instituted in St Andrew’s church in 1540-70. The Norman church now survives as a ruin to […]
Tag: Bluestone Heath Road.
The Bluestone Heath Ridgeway.
The exit from the roundabout opposite the entrance to Gunby Hall is the A1028, which climbs steadily onto Long Rigg. This is confirmed when the road takes a sharp right after passing the entrance to a chalk quarry and then at a sharp left turn it joins up with the course of the old […]
Candlesby and other Sokes.
Candlesby, in a sheltered spot on Lowgate at the foot of the Wolds overlooking the flood plain of the Lymn, was an important village in a small parish at the time of the DB. As its name implies it was probably close to the meeting place of the Candleshoe Wapentake but it was also […]
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